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WWE #25

[allthingslinguistic]

Creating spectrograms in PRAAT: The briefest possible intro with a hands-on activity 

A helpful set of open-access slides from SJ Styles for learning the basics of acoustic phonetics. Description: 

A spectrogram is a way of visualizing the energy carried by sound. It allows us to see the energy in air molecules vibrating at different frequencies. Spectrograms look very complicated, and extremely science-y, but they’re really not too tricky, once you understand a little bit about how they work. They are very easy to produce using simple free tools. These few slides will show you how to create a spectrogram from the speech of your own voice, using a regular laptop or computer, and how to use spectrograms to explore some of the properties of your own voice. Assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics, phonetics or acoustics.

Check out the full set of slides here. 

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